The Study of Status about Hearing Loss in Person Affected Leprosy / 나학회지
Korean Leprosy Bulletin
;
: 95-101, 2005.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-194540
ABSTRACT
Leprosy related service of our country is including new patient finding and treatment, preventing the relapse and rehabilitation service. Latest new patient's occurrence is decreasing much than past, and the persons affected leprosy are gradually older. So the necessity of rehabilitation service about them is increased. Influences of hearing ability in human's life is the communication, the recognition of sound, the studying of speech faculty, and the perception ability about several circumstance. NCHS of U.S.A. was reported the hearing loss is one of high incidence disease along with the hypertension and the arthritis in the old persons, and especially the inclination of hearing loss becomes serious as do graying. It was carefully presumed that 20% of old persons more than 65 years old has some difficulties of hearing ability in Korea. The 52 persons affected leprosy(PALs) were examined the pure tone audiometry for the evaluating of the hearing loss. Among them, we have found the 12 persons(23.1%) with the hearing loss, by the results of pure tone audiometry(more than 40 dB).
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Perception
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Arthritis
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Recurrence
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Rehabilitation
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Audiometry
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Incidence
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Hearing
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Hearing Loss
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Hypertension
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Korea
Type of study:
Incidence study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Leprosy Bulletin
Year:
2005
Type:
Article
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